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Message: [QUOTE="jdubs30, post: 2015932, member: 1620"] I get your premise, but I don't believe we recruit offense as "secondary" - I think JB's offensive style is a lot more free flowing and a lot less direction - and when you have the right personnel - MCW, Waiters, Triche, Flynn, etc. it works. Hell, the offense hasn't been a problem this year. Yeah our PG's are an issue but scoring overall besides the UConn game hasn't been a problem. This might be a self-fulfilling prophecy type question, but - do we get to the Final Four in 2013 or 2016 without the zone? I'm going to go with no. In 2013 every team we saw in March was so befuddled by the zone that they could barely function against us. We could score 55 points and win easy. Last year wasn't as dominating, but it gave Dayton, MTSU and Gonzaga problems - UVA couldn't score the last 10 minutes of the 2nd half and obviously UNC is a nightmare matchup for us. For so long in JB's career, the zone has been the X factor. How does that MCW team get to the FF without the zone? Would we be as dominating in M2M? Because we were not gonna outscore people with that team. Unless you're an elite/dominant team, you need something extra to make that run in March - whether it's high level elite player like Melo, or something that a lot of teams haven't seen before - and that's what JB had, the zone. I think the fact that more teams are using zone is actually hurting us. Teams are praciting against it more and going up against itgames more often. The days of teams not knowing how to attack a zone are over. I think it is still a weapon and I'm a big fan of it - but the personnel has to be right. Ironically, would Calipari or Coach K ever say "this group of guys I recruited can't play M2M, so we have to play zone". JB looks at this as our D, period. [/QUOTE]

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